HIST 1003 Lecture : Notes 2 14 12
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Hist 1003: legal corporations (no longer independent, need immigration to maintain population, fear peasants and vagabond invasions, only a few as large as 100,000 people (london, paris) 2/14/12: the town another world, the life course in brief for rich) ages. rate) outside of district where born due to density, birth was dangerous, life expectancy short (ca. Higher rates of disease in towns: a tiny minority held most of the wealth, all of the political power, generally married younger and lived longer and with greater material comfort. 1740. (higher sunspot activity which leads to greater crop yield) the continuum of these differences better than the elbe/trieste line. The eighteenth century state: an agent for revolutionary change. Introduction: 17th century crisis yields claims of absolute power and locke"s, absolutism has limited meaning (military organization, Contract implementation) limited what he did reduction of ties to nobles to local power bases, some fiscal reorganization, ministerial government, assertion of.
